[K12OSN] FC 5 and LTSP

Jarod Watkins jarod at jxxtech.net
Fri Mar 24 18:00:00 UTC 2006


On Mar 23, at 11:59 PM[Mar 23] , Eric Harrison wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Jarod Watkins wrote:
>
>> Eric Harrison wrote:
>>> It only took me a few minutes to get the LTSP packages from FC4  
>>> to work on FC5, but it did require some minor tweaking. FC5 has  
>>> the shiny new modular X setup that has all of the bits located in  
>>> different places than they were in the past + it has a shiny new  
>>> version of GNOME which has a different configuration setup for GDM.
>>> For the FC5-based version of K12LTSP, I'm going to use the soon- 
>>> to-be-released LTSP version 4.2. I hope to have a beta ready this  
>>> weekend, I only have a small handful of show-stoppers I need to  
>>> resolve...
>>> -Eric
>> If you don't mind, would you tell me what you did? i really would  
>> like to get FC5 setup if i could! Thanks!
>
> I give it a good solid 80% chance that I'll have usable (but still  
> very beta)
> ISO images uploaded in the next 12 hours. I just worked through one  
> of the
> show-stoppers[1] and am banging on another right now.
>
> To give instructions on the hacks I did earlier, I'd have to do a  
> fresh
> install and try to repeat the processes - which would take me an  
> hour or
> two. I think it is a better use of my time getting out a decent set of
> install disks ;-)
>
> -Eric
>
> [1] Thanks Shahms, your guess was right. The package-order  
> generation utility
>     does appear to treat packages with "kernel" in their name  
> differently.
>     Renaming ltsp_i386-kernel to ltsp_i386-boot made the weirdness  
> go away.

Hey no problem, i can always take a peek at what you edited and learn  
for myself! Thanks for all your hard work and I look forward to  
seeing those disks!




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